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And come what may, Magyar remained laser-focused in his campaigning on bread-and-butter issues while hammering Fidesz over corruption, noting how Orbán’s family, business cronies and inner circle have grown ever richer as ordinary Hungarians have just got poorer. What really concerned voters — inflation, economic malaise and endemic corruption — all remained front and center in Magyar’s campaign, according to Mátyás Bódi, an election geographer affiliated with Budapest’s Eötvös Loránd University. And they played well for him, explained Bódi, who analyzed raw local polling data from independent pollsters throughout the election campaign. “What drove Orbán’s defeat was the cost of…
European People’s Party (EPP) leader Manfred Weber, which the victorious Tisza opposition party belongs to, also couldn’t contain his glee at Orbán’s defeat. Orbán’s populist-nationalist Fidesz party left the center-right EPP Group in 2021 and joined the far-right Patriots for Europe. “Tonight is the victory of the people of Hungary!” Weber wrote. “They confirm that our centre-right, people-first politics win elections.” “Substance. Solutions. Unity — not empty slogans and fears,” he added. Orbán’s 16-year reign in office ended Sunday night with a landslide win for the center-right opposition, led by Magyar, who is on track to win around two thirds of the 199 seats in Budapest’s parliament. Many…
“It’s beyond comprehension that we were on the precipice of losing oil refining capacity in the country in the middle of an unprecedented global supply shortage of energy,” Martin said. “It makes absolutely no sense what was going on.” But the premier conceded that the package might not end the protests, which have been organized largely on social media apps and platforms. Several scattered road blockades, largely targeting rural motorways, continued Sunday. “We haven’t any guarantees of what protesters may or may not do,” Martin said. The government’s advisory National Emergency Coordination Group warned Sunday that much of the economy…
The weekend talks, which were brokered by Pakistan and represented the highest level engagement between an American official and Iranians since the 1979 Islamic revolution, were aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz and resuming the flow of roughly a fifth of the world’s oil through it. Reopening the strait has become an economic imperative for Trump, whose approval ratings have sagged amid spiking oil prices and growing anxiety about the war’s toll on an already turbulent global economy.But the talks ended early Sunday morning without movement on the question Trump said rendered the rest of the discussion moot.“They have…
19:42 GMT+2 Major pollsters predict landslide election win for Péter Magyar’s Tisza party Polls have closed and official counting is now under way. There is no official exit poll in this election but a prediction of how the results might look, is given by two of Hungary’s major pollsters.And there’s very little difference between the two. Medián predicts opposition party Tisza led by Péter Magyar taking home 55% of the vote, while 21 Research Institute has that figure slightly lower at 55%.Medián has incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party taking 37.9% of the vote while 21 Research Institute puts…
Published on 12/04/2026 – 18:29 GMT+2 Jannik Sinner won the Monte-Carlo Masters 1000, defeating Carlos Alcaraz in the final with a score of 7-6, 6-3. This historic success marks the Italian’s first major career title on clay, which came at the end of a challenge that lasted over two and a quarter hours. Thanks to this victory, Sinner regained the top of the ATP ranking and pulled off an unprecedented feat, winning his fourth consecutive Masters 1000 after triumphs in Paris, Indian Wells and Miami. The first set was a gruelling one-hour and 14-minute battle, made complex by strong gusts…
He stressed that Cuba does not want a war, and added that he doesn’t believe “sensitive” American people would support an invasion of the small island just 90 miles off the coast of Florida. But if one were to happen, he said, there would be “very high costs for everyone involved.”“If the time comes, I don’t think there would be any justification for the United States to launch a military aggression against Cuba, or for the U.S. to undertake a surgical operation or the kidnapping of a president,” Díaz-Canel said, referring to the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro…
By Kirsten Ripper & Euronews Published on 12/04/2026 – 18:20 GMT+2 “There is no point in carrying an animal that is too weak to swim out into deeper water. It’s like throwing a bird that has hit the windscreen into the air and hoping it will fly again. Then the bird dies somewhere else, just not on my doorstep. That’s torture for this animal.” That’s what Lisa Klemens from the German Oceanographic Museum in Stralsund says in an interview with the leading German daily SZ. Her colleague, marine biologist Anja Gallus, also takes a critical view of the way the humpback whale, affectionately…
Marathon talks between Washington and Tehran in Islamabad hit a dead-end late Saturday, with U.S. Vice President JD Vance saying Iran had “chosen not to accept our terms.” Vance said U.S. negotiators had sought confirmation that Iran would not seek a nuclear weapon. President Donald Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that Iran was “very unyielding” to this “single most important issue.” In a separate post, Trump said that the U.S. would shortly “begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” threatening that “any Iranian who fires at…
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and challenger Péter Magyar have cast their ballots in Budapest as voters turned out in large numbers. Orbán voted in the late morning north of the capital, in the area of Zsámbék near Szentendre, while Magyar voted earlier in the morning at a polling station in Budapest’s central V District, at the heart of the city. Speaking after voting, Orbán said the election was about protecting what Hungary had built over the past decade and a half. Magyar described the vote as a choice between remaining aligned with the EU or continuing as a political outlier.…